True. But name one person who people say "died elegantly". Peacefully. Violently. Quietly. Heroically. Instantly. Alone. But never gracefully, or artistically, or "in a refined manner".
Death is an inherently ugly thing. He can tart it up all he wants, it's still someone's life ending and he's describing it like he's found a one-line fix for a particularly annoying software bug. Of course, it's also a goddamn roller coaster, so expecting him to appreciate the plight of the terminally ill is perhaps asking too much.
I wasn't aware that criticizing someone for calling death, specifically a killer roller coaster death, "elegant" required me to also fix the problem of human mortality. Sorry, I'll get right on that.
Sure there is. I've been bedside and holding the hand of three different people as they expired. Death is about the only elegant part of aging.
I've been there too. Watching the failing struggle to stay awake and aware because, in between stretches of tiredness and confusion, they have moments of absolute clarity where they realize they'll never open their eyes again once they close them.
Hours later, watching them still breathing slowly but far too slowly to maintain consciousness or even sleep. The body struggles desperately on even after the mind has left, a loved one reduced to little more than a broken automaton. Holding a hand that's only warm because of the warmth from your own hand. It's like watching someone slowly drown that you can never save. Not what I call elegant.
Keeping people as living vegetables in hospitals and nursing homes isn't elegant. It's greedy and selfish.
Oh, you mean "relatively" elegant. Sure, dying in a hospital bed would be way better than bleeding out after a robbery, but that doesn't make it in any way good.
Shhhh.. You're ruining the fascination created by the article. Direct quote from it: "The theory is still largely speculation, shored up by seductive anecdotes"
Seductive anecdotes?
Dear Penthouse Forum,
I wish to provide your esteemed publication with further data points on the "Once you go black" hypothesis....
Oh my god yes, that sounds like my schooling. They HATED phonics. It's how I learned (not "Hooked on..." of course as it didn't exist at the time), it worked great! But when I was growing up they were big on "Journals" where you didn't correct kids mistakes directly (passive-aggressive learning, WTF) because they "didn't stifle creativity".
Now my cousin (more like a niece due to generational quirks) is spelling apple "apl" because of some new retarded plan they have.
My elementary/middle school had remedial reading (like 3ish grades less than normal) classes up to eighth grade, and I think it stopped there only because the school stopped there.
Yes, your children should not only know letters and numbers, but be able to read BEFORE kindergarten,
Good luck with that. I'm in my 30s and when I was in 1st grade I was the only literate student in the class. Years later (like, 15 years later) I had a hell of a shock when I went to a new barber and he remembered me as "that kid who could read on the first day of school". At four years older than me, he wasn't my classmate, nor had any relatives in my class. I was such an oddity for being literate at five/six that the entire elementary heard about it.
See how these men got away with no punishment whatsoever? This is the exact reason why the government needs more power to choke free speech. After all, they are completely powerless to stop rioters who use Facebook, we need to give them the power to silence Facebook!
Notice the important qualifiers there. They're looking at whether it would be right.
It doesn't take "the police, the intelligence services, and industry" to figure out what is right. It takes "the police, the intelligence services, and industry" to figure out what is feasible.
As far as whether it's right goes, ask anyone with any experience relating to civil rights and they will tell you without hesitation it's wrong to stifle the free communication of people based on suspicion. And it has to be on suspicion, not fact or conviction, because if you "know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality" then you can just arrest them for plotting violence, disorder and criminality. Seems like if you're so sure you have a rioter or terrorist on your hands, you shouldn't have a hard time proving it in a court of law and getting them off the streets, rather than shutting down their Facebook.
Aww, so many things you could do with the empty space! Like fill it with a bunch of pornographic photos, except with Hitler's face clumsily photoshopped over the women's. Make 'em pay for their curiosity with short-term impotence.
My games library has rapidly grown to contain far more indie titles than recent AAA titles. I get accused being some sort of "I liked it when it was obscure!" hipster because of it. And I reply, "No, I just prefer giving my money to people who seem to want it and don't punish me for it."
is completely and utterly vague, and has become like 'fascist' or 'capitalist' or 'communist', a word without any actual, real meaning.
*Glances at Canada's Green Party, which is apparently debating the benefits of homeopathy and recently made an anti-wifi declaration that would also ban the sun.*
Clearest definition I see from here is "crazy and stupid". Maybe it's vague south of the border?
I tried to get the Games Industry software developers to even discuss forming a union for 15 years while being a senior developer for EA, Sony and several smaller houses... I finally gave up. Developers are dumb asses, is my only conclusion.
I don't have the insight of a senior dev but I'm shocked you even tried. From the outside it looks to be an industry in which every single person who's not at the top or doesn't have his name on the game box is considered replaceable. It's also an industry a lot of people want to get into.
Devs unionize.
Publisher ignores it.
Devs make demands.
Publisher ignores it.
Devs use the word "strike".
Publisher fires them all, replaces them with nonunion labor.
New team works ten 120 hour salaried months instead of six to get up to speed and release American McGee's I Had Nothing to do with This or John Madden's Football on the Moon 2011 in time for Christmas.
Publisher makes the exact same amount of money.
Fluttershy was well on her way to a reputation as the secretly most-dangerous pony in the show after the episodes 'Stare Master' and 'Dragonshy'.
Yeah, but she was up against hostile (or at least threatening) beings there. At the Gala, she just went nuts.
What I love about this show is that, despite it ostensibly being for little girls, it's actually a show about a superhero team.
Well, IIRC Lauren Faust did say she disliked the original G1 shows because when she played with her G1 MLP toys they went on adventures and didn't defeat their enemies by teaching them to share or by crying at them. .
The first episode I saw is the one in which Pinky Pie goes schizophrenic... yeah, you read it right.
Worth noting (for anyone curious) that every one of the six main characters has at least a short scene where they suffer some severe problem of that sort. Looked like quiet, sweet, loving, friend-to-all-animals Fluttershy was going to get away without one. And then the season finale happened and she earned the nicknames "Flutterrage" and "Psychoshy".
Essentially, every pony has their special talents that help them shine. Fairly standard kid show stuff, but this series occasionally inverts that by showing that if their special talent is consistently frustrated it has rapidly-mounting negative effects for the pony's psychological health. So it's a cartoon about friendship and rainbows with occasional catatonia, schizophrenia, psychosis, dangerous workaholism, delusional breaks from reality, and nervous breakdowns.
Personally the show initially gained my respect by using mythological creatures, and giving them the right names. I saw a silhouetted monster and said "Hey, that looks like a manticore." Sure enough, they called it a manticore! There's stuff they made up, too (heh, diamond dogs), but I really did not expect to see reasonably accurate phoenixes, manticores, hydra, and cockatrices in a show like this.
The fantastically sad thing is that this is what we've always warned/complained about. Every time a child porn filter is mentioned on Slashdot as a proposed project, there's a cloud of "it's gonna be abused" comments following it.
Yep. We demolished the arguments for it, we provided previous examples where it all went to hell, and it still happened. Now we have one more example.
Come on Cassandra, let's go down and watch 'em bring the horse in.
To reach a compromise, I still say wear more layers rather than wasting all that energy.
Precisely. I'm a guy who tolerates heat well but cold poorly. I've got my jacket on right now because of the air conditioning where I work. I don't bother other people because of it, I just put the damn jacket on. In winter I add a sweater and cardigan under the jacket, still nice and toasty.
Oh, that's excellent timing. My cubicle neighbor just started complaining about the temperature. I think I'll add earmuffs.
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Or people in some country are going to be wondering why everyone keeps telling Gordon Freeman that their hovercraft is full of eels.
Unfortunately, you can't avoid death.
True. But name one person who people say "died elegantly". Peacefully. Violently. Quietly. Heroically. Instantly. Alone. But never gracefully, or artistically, or "in a refined manner".
Death is an inherently ugly thing. He can tart it up all he wants, it's still someone's life ending and he's describing it like he's found a one-line fix for a particularly annoying software bug. Of course, it's also a goddamn roller coaster, so expecting him to appreciate the plight of the terminally ill is perhaps asking too much.
So what is your alternative then ?
I wasn't aware that criticizing someone for calling death, specifically a killer roller coaster death, "elegant" required me to also fix the problem of human mortality. Sorry, I'll get right on that.
Sure there is. I've been bedside and holding the hand of three different people as they expired. Death is about the only elegant part of aging.
I've been there too. Watching the failing struggle to stay awake and aware because, in between stretches of tiredness and confusion, they have moments of absolute clarity where they realize they'll never open their eyes again once they close them.
Hours later, watching them still breathing slowly but far too slowly to maintain consciousness or even sleep. The body struggles desperately on even after the mind has left, a loved one reduced to little more than a broken automaton. Holding a hand that's only warm because of the warmth from your own hand. It's like watching someone slowly drown that you can never save. Not what I call elegant.
Keeping people as living vegetables in hospitals and nursing homes isn't elegant. It's greedy and selfish.
Oh, you mean "relatively" elegant. Sure, dying in a hospital bed would be way better than bleeding out after a robbery, but that doesn't make it in any way good.
... and there isn't a thing elegant about it.
Haha... "Foes" I meant, not enemies.
Ha! Now all we need is four teenagers to come along and remove your rubber mask to reveal... RICHARD NIXON!
So - where you live tourists are fair game ofr killing and robbing?
Yeah.... Duck season, rabbit season, tourist season....
What are the UIDs up to, anyway? Maybe we should make note so we can have pre-Taco and post-Taco elitism along with number-of-digits elitism.
As long as he's better at flying than his countrymen are at special effects....
Seductive anecdotes?
Dear Penthouse Forum,
I wish to provide your esteemed publication with further data points on the "Once you go black" hypothesis....
Now my cousin (more like a niece due to generational quirks) is spelling apple "apl" because of some new retarded plan they have.
My elementary/middle school had remedial reading (like 3ish grades less than normal) classes up to eighth grade, and I think it stopped there only because the school stopped there.
Good luck with that. I'm in my 30s and when I was in 1st grade I was the only literate student in the class. Years later (like, 15 years later) I had a hell of a shock when I went to a new barber and he remembered me as "that kid who could read on the first day of school". At four years older than me, he wasn't my classmate, nor had any relatives in my class. I was such an oddity for being literate at five/six that the entire elementary heard about it.
Depends. Can I be the average person they use?
See how these men got away with no punishment whatsoever? This is the exact reason why the government needs more power to choke free speech. After all, they are completely powerless to stop rioters who use Facebook, we need to give them the power to silence Facebook!
It doesn't take "the police, the intelligence services, and industry" to figure out what is right. It takes "the police, the intelligence services, and industry" to figure out what is feasible.
As far as whether it's right goes, ask anyone with any experience relating to civil rights and they will tell you without hesitation it's wrong to stifle the free communication of people based on suspicion. And it has to be on suspicion, not fact or conviction, because if you "know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality" then you can just arrest them for plotting violence, disorder and criminality. Seems like if you're so sure you have a rioter or terrorist on your hands, you shouldn't have a hard time proving it in a court of law and getting them off the streets, rather than shutting down their Facebook.
http://www.babarshouse.com/ep7.html
Can they be radioactive ants? I want an ant farm keyboard, but only if I can get superpowers from it.
Aww, so many things you could do with the empty space! Like fill it with a bunch of pornographic photos, except with Hitler's face clumsily photoshopped over the women's. Make 'em pay for their curiosity with short-term impotence.
My games library has rapidly grown to contain far more indie titles than recent AAA titles. I get accused being some sort of "I liked it when it was obscure!" hipster because of it. And I reply, "No, I just prefer giving my money to people who seem to want it and don't punish me for it."
*Glances at Canada's Green Party, which is apparently debating the benefits of homeopathy and recently made an anti-wifi declaration that would also ban the sun.*
Clearest definition I see from here is "crazy and stupid". Maybe it's vague south of the border?
I don't have the insight of a senior dev but I'm shocked you even tried. From the outside it looks to be an industry in which every single person who's not at the top or doesn't have his name on the game box is considered replaceable. It's also an industry a lot of people want to get into.
Devs unionize.
Publisher ignores it.
Devs make demands.
Publisher ignores it.
Devs use the word "strike".
Publisher fires them all, replaces them with nonunion labor.
New team works ten 120 hour salaried months instead of six to get up to speed and release American McGee's I Had Nothing to do with This or John Madden's Football on the Moon 2011 in time for Christmas.
Publisher makes the exact same amount of money.
Fluttershy was well on her way to a reputation as the secretly most-dangerous pony in the show after the episodes 'Stare Master' and 'Dragonshy'.
Yeah, but she was up against hostile (or at least threatening) beings there. At the Gala, she just went nuts.
What I love about this show is that, despite it ostensibly being for little girls, it's actually a show about a superhero team.
Well, IIRC Lauren Faust did say she disliked the original G1 shows because when she played with her G1 MLP toys they went on adventures and didn't defeat their enemies by teaching them to share or by crying at them. .
The first episode I saw is the one in which Pinky Pie goes schizophrenic... yeah, you read it right.
Worth noting (for anyone curious) that every one of the six main characters has at least a short scene where they suffer some severe problem of that sort. Looked like quiet, sweet, loving, friend-to-all-animals Fluttershy was going to get away without one. And then the season finale happened and she earned the nicknames "Flutterrage" and "Psychoshy".
Essentially, every pony has their special talents that help them shine. Fairly standard kid show stuff, but this series occasionally inverts that by showing that if their special talent is consistently frustrated it has rapidly-mounting negative effects for the pony's psychological health. So it's a cartoon about friendship and rainbows with occasional catatonia, schizophrenia, psychosis, dangerous workaholism, delusional breaks from reality, and nervous breakdowns.
Personally the show initially gained my respect by using mythological creatures, and giving them the right names. I saw a silhouetted monster and said "Hey, that looks like a manticore." Sure enough, they called it a manticore! There's stuff they made up, too (heh, diamond dogs), but I really did not expect to see reasonably accurate phoenixes, manticores, hydra, and cockatrices in a show like this.
The fantastically sad thing is that this is what we've always warned/complained about. Every time a child porn filter is mentioned on Slashdot as a proposed project, there's a cloud of "it's gonna be abused" comments following it.
Yep. We demolished the arguments for it, we provided previous examples where it all went to hell, and it still happened. Now we have one more example.
Come on Cassandra, let's go down and watch 'em bring the horse in.
To reach a compromise, I still say wear more layers rather than wasting all that energy.
Precisely. I'm a guy who tolerates heat well but cold poorly. I've got my jacket on right now because of the air conditioning where I work. I don't bother other people because of it, I just put the damn jacket on. In winter I add a sweater and cardigan under the jacket, still nice and toasty.
Oh, that's excellent timing. My cubicle neighbor just started complaining about the temperature. I think I'll add earmuffs.